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Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive …

In the book of Genesis, God bestows a new name upon Abram—Abraham, a father of many nations. W…

Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history have be…

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread ac…

From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. They have often, though not…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on …

With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last …

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both?Fascism is notoriously ha…

From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collect…

A brilliantly original, landmark retelling of Greek myths, recounted as if they were actual scenes b…

For many, the terrorist attacks of September 2001 changed the face of the world, pushing terrorism t…

From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late t…